What about the acquisition that is being discussed all over the place? Either it's a rumor to prevent people from running away in droves at the moment, or Riverbed simply doesn't have the money to afford anything at all. And the security story is thin. With visibility only you will not establish yourself as a security player. There are 1000 other players that are light years ahead. You make such a state secret out of it in which direction it should go with security. Team up with other security vendors and become part of a security suite. And finally make NPM cloud-compatible, otherwise the oven will be off soon anyway.
I could go on writing like this for hours. But I don't want to depress anyone.
And dear management and co., stop fanning the flames, you know very well in which direction Riverbed is drifting, namely into insignificance. I can understand your silence and distraction, the paycheck is just too tempting.